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Aspredinidae (Bratpfannenwelse)
Astroblepidae (Kletterwelse)
Auchenipteridae (Falsche Dornwelse)
Cetopsidae (Walwelse)
Doradidae (Dornwelse)
Heptapteridae (Heptapteridae)
Loricariidae (Harnischwelse)
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Scoloplacidae (Stachligen Zwergwelse)
Trichomycteridae (Schmerlenwelse)
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Aspredininae(Banjowelse)
Bunocephalinae(Bratpfannenwelse)
Hoplomyzontinae(Hoplomyzontinae)
with genus
Genus
Length (total)
Body
height
dorsal
fin
soft
rays
Adi
pose
Acanthobunocephalus
Friel, 1995
3
Amaralia
Fowler, 1954
15
Aspredinichthys
Bleeker, 1858
22
Aspredo
Scopoli, 1777
40
Bunocephalus
Kner, 1855
13
Dupouyichthys
Schultz, 1944
25
Ernstichthys
Fernández-Yépez, 1953
4
Hoplomyzon
Myers, 1942
4
Micromyzon
Friel & Lundberg, 1996
2
Platystacus
Bloch, 1794
20
Pseudobunocephalus
Friel, 2008
12
Pterobunocephalus
Fowler, 1943
10
Xyliphius
Eigenmann, 1912
15
13 entries found
Many thanks to
for the pictures
Rudolph Kner (1855) (
PD
)
1
Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle
(
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
)
2
Christoph Rettberg
(
CC BY-SA 3.0
)
3
Ictiologia Universidad Católica de Oriente
(
CC BY 2.0
)
4
V. Reis
(
CC BY 4.0
)
5
California Academy of Sciences
(
CCO (PD)
)
6
The Field Museum
(
CC BY-NC 4.0
)
7
Ingo Seidel
8, 10
T.R. Vigliotta
(
CC BY-NC 4.0
)
9
The Field Museum - M.W. Littmann
(
CC BY-NC 4.0
)
11
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